The Freedom Chronicles, Vol. 3.2.26 The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that Cyrus succeeded to the Persian throne in 559 BC. After conquering numerous neighboring kingdoms, including Media, Bactria. Armenia and Lydia, he conquered Babylonia, whose holdings doubled the size of his empire and made him the sole ruler of what we now know as [...]
The Freedom Chronicles Shortly before our impending war with Islamist Iran, Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech to European leaders for the ages. Delivered before the Munich Security Conference, his address not only elicited a standing ovation, a response unlike any in the audience’s memory, but it also moved Europe toward a resolve [...]
As massive crowds of demonstrators fill the streets of Iranian cities, among the buildings on fire are mosques. Why? In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I detail how Persia, the Middle East, and North Africa became Muslim lands. They fell due to brutal conquest. The Persian Sasanian Empire, which ruled the lands [...]
One of the New Year's gifts given to those of us who wish to retain our freedoms is the anti-regime riots that have erupted across Iran. The significance of these riots cannot be overstated. The regime is a junior partner inside the Axis of Evil, dominated by Russia and China. They are the most regime-threatening [...]
On Christmas Day, the United States laid down the gauntlet for 2026. If you are an anti-Western, anti-freedom terrorist in ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or Boko Haram, if you are bringing drugs into the US mainland or killing and kidnapping Christians in Burkina Faso, Africa, satellites guided by our counterintelligence operatives will find you and [...]
Freedom Chronicles The report on freedom movements inside the autocratic regimes dedicated to the defeat and subjugation of the Judeo-Christian West. Death to the Iranian Theocracy As readers of these columns are aware, we demonstrate that tyrants running regimes such as Xi’s CCP and Putin’s Russia are less likely and less able to wage war [...]
In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. II, - The Way Forward, I report that the nearly autonomous Kurds of Northern Iraq, have not only exhibited great heroism in driving ISIS out of the towns and cities near their homeland but have made enormous strides in bringing about the coming Islamic reformation. I [...]
On April 8, I attended a wedding reception where I was seated next to an attendee who felt the need to let me know my views regarding resurgent militant Islam were, in his view, misguided. Given that we all know about the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and all the other myriad sins [...]
With the Iran deal -- the JCPOC (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) -- now being reviewed by Congress, many of us worry that Obama and team will prove to be even worse negotiators than was Neville Chamberlain, the man whose contribution to the 1938 Munich Pact with Hitler’s Nazi Germany guaranteed World War II. All Americans [...]
In the wake of the Paris shootings, the horrors visited by ISIS upon Syria and Iraq and the genocide being perpetrated by Boko Haram in North Africa, finally there seems to be an awakening even among the western mainstream media and the politically correct that there could be something endemic to Islam itself that accounts [...]
